Fuck You, America

 Here’s the deal:  I can’t afford to have a job. 

How stupid is that?  I can barely pay my bills, (like I literally don’t have enough money to pay off my debts with the money I collect every month) and yet I make too much money, (according to the federal government) to get a tax return or to get financial aid for my kids’ college tuition or to qualify for any government program which assists people on any level, whatsoever.

I would be better off, financially, to quit my job and just see what happens.  Being a proper job-holding, tax-paying, suburban, married person is infinitely worse than being a bum.  What the fuck?  I pay taxes all year round, but then the federal and state governments want to fine me at the end of every fiscal year so that my money can help other people.  If I have to take out a loan to pay a tax fine, even though I’ve been paying taxes all year, there is something tragically wrong with the system. 

Seriously, now … I am going to have to quit my job just to be able to survive financially.  Thank you, America.  Thank you for taking my medical premiums out of my paycheck every month and then making it so that even though I have (supposedly premier) medical insurance, I still can’t afford to pay my co-pays for medical procedures.  Thank you, America, for encouraging me to start a small business, and then totally fucking me when that business fails (like half of all small businesses do).  Thank you, America, for telling our children that they should attend college if they want to be anything of substance, and then making it impossible to pay for tuition unless we take out egregious loans.

I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life paying off medical debt and college debt and credit card debt and struggling to buy groceries in this vast land of opportunity.  What a great thing we have going on in these United States of America.